A bowl of broken rice soup at the age of seven shattered all the warmth of her childhood. In a family that favors sons over daughters, she is the extra daughter, the sensible sister, and the provider who is expected to sacrifice her whole life by default.
He was treated harshly, ignored, and beaten since he was a child. He was forced to drop out of school and go to the city at the age of fourteen, where he struggled to survive at the bottom and became his family's cash machine.